Editing Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (section)

===Name===
Paul Kurtz was inspired by the 1949 Belgian organization [[Comité Para]], whose full name was ''Comité Belge pour l'Investigation Scientifique des Phénomènes Réputés Paranormaux'' ("Belgian Committee for Scientific Investigation of Purported Paranormal Phenomena").<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.skeptic.com/downloads/Why-Is-There-a-Skeptical-Movement.pdf |title=Why Is There a Skeptical Movement? |author=[[Daniel Loxton]] |publisher=[[The Skeptics Society]] |page=3 |date=2013 |access-date=1 September 2014 |archive-date=March 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330130327/https://www.skeptic.com/downloads/Why-Is-There-a-Skeptical-Movement.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1976, the proposed name was "Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal and Other Phenomena" which was shortened to "Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal". The initial [[acronym]], "CSICP" was difficult to pronounce and so was changed to "CSICOP".  According to [[James Alcock]], it was never intended to be "Psi Cop", a nickname that some of the group's detractors adopted.{{sfn|Kurtz|2001a|p=42}}

In November 2006, CSICOP further shortened its name to "Committee for Skeptical Inquiry" (CSI), pronounced C-S-I.{{r|csinow}}<ref name="name_change">[http://www.csicop.org/about/csi.html "CSICOP becomes CSI after thirty years"]. CSI. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090815024758/http://www.csicop.org/about/csi.html |date=August 15, 2009 }}</ref> The reasons for the change were to create a name that was shorter, more "media-friendly", to remove "paranormal" from the name, and to reflect more accurately the actual scope of the organization with its broader focus on critical thinking, science, and rationality in general, and because "it includes the root words of our magazine's title, the ''Skeptical Inquirer''".<ref name="CSI_Now">{{Cite web |url=http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/its_csi_now_not_csicop/ |title=It's CSI now, Not CSICOP |author=[[Kendrick Frazier]] |work=CSI website |publisher=CSI |date=4 December 2006 |access-date=1 September 2014 |archive-date=July 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140719010159/http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/its_csi_now_not_csicop/ |url-status=live }}</ref>